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Team MIT's Robot Lost the DARPA Challenge but Won Over the Crowd 16/06/2015 Team MIT's robot lost the DARPA challenge but won over the crowd UK Team MIT's robot lost the DARPA challenge but won over the crowd by Mona Lalwani | @monalalwani | June 12th 2015 at 12:30 pm 13 At the DARPA Robotics Challenge last week, a robot drove in on a red UTV. The vehicle slowly came to a halt on the obstacle course as it reached the door of a simulated disaster building. The driver, a six-foot-two Atlas humanoid, sat motionless for many minutes. About half a dozen researchers wearing blue "TEAM MIT" vests looked on, like anxious parents waiting for their child to pick up the pace in a crucial race. 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"We've spent so many hours with this robot. I don't think of it is as human or anything but I love this robot. To watch it crash face first into the ground... I didn't know if it was going to get up." Atlas showed persistence. Soon, it was back on its feet, with the help of its team and a metal rig, but it broke its right wrist in the fall. Most of the remaining tasks in the race required hand movements; the robot needed to cut through a wall, pull a lever and rotate a valve. Luckily, the team and their software had the required intelligence to improvise. After the fall, when the robot's encoders went nuts, the team detected that failure and switched sensor modes. "We told the robot your right arm is no good, use your left arm," said Scott Kuindersma, Team MIT's project and control lead. "So we were able to pick up where we left off." The crowd roared as Atlas walked up a four-step stairway to complete its first run. The human-machine relationship is usually perceived as one of codependence. But at the recent robotics race, there was constant give and take between the human operators and their corresponding machines. The operator sat behind a purposely degraded link that restricted sensor feedback and communication, since that might be the case in the event of a real disaster -- the sort of scene the robots are being trained for. When Atlas was out on the field, it wasn't remote-controlled by an operator. It relied on its own perception codes that http://www.engadget.com/2015/06/12/team-mit-darpa-robotics-challenge/ 2/16 16/06/2015 Team MIT's robot lost the DARPA challenge but won over the crowd pointed out objects in its environment. The codes then became the cues for the optimization algorithm that ran through the metallic veins of the machine. The Atlas was one of seven advanced humanoids supplied by Boston Dynamics to the participating teams. Like most other teams, MIT stripped the pre-loaded software and replaced it with algorithms that gave the robot its own unique personality. "Our Atlas perceives the world differently and walks differently," said Kuindersma. His team developed a software system for bipedal locomotion, state estimation and perception. "The hardware, in principle, is capable of running fluidly through the environment, doing precise and delicate manipulation and carrying heavy loads," he said. "I think the limitation is fundamentally a software problem. So it's really on us, computer scientists and control engineers, to raise the capabilities through software to make them do the things that they're capable of doing." At the end of day one, the team spent the night repairing the damage –- the broken wrist, the faulty encoders and probably their morale. The next day, when Atlas drove back for its final run, it made it out of the vehicle and through the door effortlessly. But half way through the obstacle course, it lost its balance and slammed to the ground again. In the end, MIT's Atlas didn't win the challenge. But its falls in the race made robots, as a mechanical species, more relatable and less apocalyptic. Having empathy for robots isn't an issue for everyone, though. "How could you not like http://www.engadget.com/2015/06/12/team-mit-darpa-robotics-challenge/ 3/16 16/06/2015 Team MIT's robot lost the DARPA challenge but won over the crowd robots? That's like saying you don't like puppies," said Tedrake. "Some people are worked up about robots taking our jobs or the apocalypse. We're far from that...[but] the technology has come to a point, where robots can work outside of a machine factory. They're able to get out and do meaningful work." TAGS: DARPA, DarpaRoboticsChallenge, mit, MitCsail, MITrobot, Robots, uk-feature, video HIDE COMMENTS 13 COMMENTS Sign in 41 people listening + Follow Share Post comment as... Newest | Oldest | Top Comments zorkind 16 hours ago I prefere the KAIST's hubo bot, it did so damm good. :) Like Reply h4ldol 2 days ago The MIT team won the crowd by using a robot supplied by a robot making company, basically only developing the algorithms that led their robot to fall on its face at least twice? Awesome. 1 Like Reply CharlesFabook 2 days ago If my child had been accepted by MIT that robot would not have failed. 1 Like Reply zorkind 16 hours ago @CharlesFabook hahahaha i am laughing so much right now ^_^ thanks for that :P Like Reply http://www.engadget.com/2015/06/12/team-mit-darpa-robotics-challenge/ 4/16 16/06/2015 Team MIT's robot lost the DARPA challenge but won over the crowd lovequotes 3 days ago I have no idea what you're talking about.. http://kquotes.com/ Like Reply MelissaMcD 4 days ago robots can't take all the jobs. if nobody has a job, nobody can buy the stuff the robots are building. 1 Like Reply farrellj 3 days ago Robots can and will take most of the jobs. If everyone has a basic income, then everyone can buy the stuff the robots and ai are producing. FTFY. Like Reply gr689 2 days ago The 1% can.... And they wouldn't need us to build it for them either.. Like Reply Ingusmw 4 days ago from the video, "people will lose jobs and they'll just have to adapt, like when PC's came out." and "over all society will be better." are not great closing statements. first line sounds condescending, and the jury is still out for that 2nd line conclusion... 1 Like Reply NooYawkah 4 days ago It's like a bad teen movie! American team comes up short but wins the crowd. And taking home the prize.. an Asian country. 1 Like Reply Peter Mug 4 days ago "Win the crowd." - Proximo 8 Like Reply salient1 4 days ago @Peter Mug Too bad "the crowd" doesn't offer up multi-million dollar defense contracts. 1 Like Reply http://www.engadget.com/2015/06/12/team-mit-darpa-robotics-challenge/ 5/16 16/06/2015 Team MIT's robot lost the DARPA challenge but won over the crowd Peter Mug 4 days ago @salient1 @Peter Mug You're assuming I read a single word of this article (other than the title). I have no idea what you're talking about. 1 Like Reply Recommended For You 1. 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